Interview with Carol Turley, Knowledge Exchange Coordinator of the UK Ocean Acidification Research
Programme, University of California

Carol Turley, Coordinator at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory talks about the three key impacts on our
oceans; warming waters, ocean acidification and de-oxygenation. She describes the oceans as hot, sour
and breathless.

Aaron Ashley Dublenho, Jennifer Switzer and Derek Wonk from Initiatives for Sustainable Education talk
about the work they are doing at COP trying to contribute to the decision making process on climate
change.

Artur Runge-Metzger talks about the current state of the negotiations after the first few days of
talks. He says that there is a lot more work to be done to get different countries’ ideas
captured and says this is normal for a negotiations. He says the final text will look a lot different
once all the compromises have been worked out.

Interview with Jacob von Uexkull Founder and Chair of the World Future Council

Jakob Von Uexkull talks about the need to create new money to save the climate. He says it is absurd
that we are about the destabilise the climate because we say there is no money, when there are means of
creating new money.

Patrice Burger, Executive Director of Centre d'Actions et de Réalisations Internationales
(CARI) explains how climate change is reflected in drylands but that these stressed areas can also
form part of the solution.

Adrian Rimmer says there is a desire for market based approaches to tackling climate change and many
current challenges are structural problems. He accepts that there have been problems with market
interventions into issues of land use, but explains that his organisation aim to define best practice,
and create trust in carbon mechanisms, working with a number of different stakeholders.

Gunnar Boye Olesen describes how moving to 100% renewable energy in 20 years time is feasible and
economically beneficial for countries in the EU. He says that in order to make this transition, there
first needs to be the political will to promote sustainability to overcome vested interests in old
habits and inefficient technologies.